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Friday 10 June 2011

Cambodian court to hear impact of forced marriages


Chief Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, looks on during his trial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 30, 2009.
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Chief Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, looks on during his trial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 30, 2009.

Robert Carmichael
Australia Network News

A Cambodian woman is among thousands seeking justice after the Khmer Rouge forced them to marry men they had never met.

In 1978, during the final months of the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule of Cambodia, 16-year-old Pen Sochan was ordered to marry a soldier.

Forced marriage is among charges laid against four senior Khmer Rouge leaders whose trial starts in June, at the United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh.

A new documentary, Red Wedding, has followed Pen Sochan's story.

She has been recognised as one of nearly 4,000 victims, who are known as civil parties, for the purposes of the court case.

The makers of Red Wedding say 250,000 Cambodian women were forcibly married under the Khmer Rouge regime, and unlike in other parts of the world men were also forced to wed.

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